God’s Voice Must Never Be Confused
With the Voice of an Ecclesiastical Structure

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The Cry of Relevance

All that breed of men who knew the voice of God was removed. They were irrelevant.  The new cry was You’ve got to be relevant, and that relevance meant accepting the North American version of the Jesuit Marxist Liberation theology-the preferential option for the poor, the inner city work, strumming the guitar, coffee houses, anti-war poetry.

The Shock Wave

The Catholic “charismatic” movement had been born in the Maria Laach Abbey in Germany in Nazi years, the same abbey led by Abbot Herwegen who developed  Reichstheologie.  This movement would join forces with the confluence of pantheism and Marxism that had been taught in Jesuit seminaries around the world from the 1950s on. The new Jesuit Superior General, Pedro Arrupe, elected at GC31, burned with Ignatian fervor to remold the culture of the entire world with Jesuit Teihard de Chardin’s theology of pantheism blended with Marxism. In 1966, Pedro Arrupe held the first major “Celebration” service, employing the new directives from Vatican II, at the Jesuit Fordham University before the largest gathering of Jesuit leaders in the history of North America.

It hit like a shock wave. By the late sixties and early seventies, the marks of Jesuit influence were suddenly visible everywhere in the Structure.

A Voice That Resembled Rome

Everything changed with a startling suddenness. By the 1970s a powerful wave of strange new men had flooded into the Structure-men who knew not God, knew not the truth, and hated those who did know god and the truth. Steeped in cutting edge Jesuit promotion of the religious dimension of the pantheistic/Marxist Hippie movement, these would-be “preachers” no longer had a voice that was one with nature, and nature’s God. Rather, they had a voice, and an agenda-that resembled Rome.

The Ekklesia, The Called Out Ones

“Multitudes are joined to the church who have never been united to Christ.” GC 468.

The Sovereignty of Christ Comes First

The sovereignty of God, the sovereignty of Christ, the sovereignty of the Holy Spirit, the sovereignty of the Word interpreted by the Holy Spirit, comes first.Once that matter is settled, once and for all, and decisively in the human heart in full surrender, two or three, or more, can come together in Christ’s name, and Christ’s presence will be in the midst, making that gathering an ekklesia, a gathering of called out ones.

Only Those Who Are Taught By the Father Who Christ is to Them are Members of His Ekklesia, His Church

Only those who truly confess with heart, soul and life that Christ is Christ, the Son of the Living God, to them, are members of His ekklesia, His called out ones.

“When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?” Matthew 16:13.

Whom Do You Say That Jesus, The Son of Man, Is?

This is the first question that must be asked and settled, Whom do you say that Jesus is? Is He Lord of your life? Have you surrendered your all to Him? Has every thought been brought into captivity to His obedience?

“And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and other, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.” Matthew 16:14.

Do you see Jesus as John the Baptist, mighty in spirit, greatest among those born of woman? Do you see Him as a mighty prophet who can control the elements by his word-Elijah? Do you see Him as a prophet-Jeremias? There are religions which see Jesus as a great teacher, but not divine-such as Islam. There are religions, such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses who deny the deity of Christ-just like the “Anti-Trinitarians.”  Today a pantheistic Christ is being presented, an ecumenical Christ is being presented, an ecclesiastical Christ is being presented, and a rock and roll Christ is being presented. False Christs.  

The Primary Question: How Do I Relate To Christ?

Jesus is questioning the disciples ever more closely as to how they viewed Him, and how they related to Him. This self-examination is necessary for a person to become a member of the ekklesia. This was to establish the basis for understanding whom the ekklesia, the church, the true church, is. Those like the anti-Trinitarians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Muslims, who deny Christ’s deity, are not the ekklesia. They view Christ as a great teacher, a great prophet, but not as fully divine.

Neither could the Jewish leaders be part of the ekklesia, the true “church” the called out ones, for it was impossible for them to even believe, because they received honor from one another and not from God only. Indeed, at the very moment Jesus told them this, they were seeking to murder him.

Jesus later told them, “But ye believe not, because ye are not of My sheep, as I said unto you.” John 10:26.

The Church of His day disfellowshipped anyone following Christ. John 9. The “Structure Church” of Christ’s day sent out an arrest warrant for Christ. John 11:57. The “Structure Church” of Christ’s day tried through extermination to stamp out the followers of Christ. See Acts of the Apostles and Saul’s work. 

The Structure Church of Jesus’ day was not the ekklesia, the called out ones.

Christ Explain Who the Church Really Is

“He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

“And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

“And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but My father which is in heaven.

“And I say also unto thee, That thou are Petros, and upon this, the Petra, I will build my ekklesia: and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”  Matthew 16: 15-18.

Christ Defines His Ekklesia, His Church

1.      The issue is, Whom do you say that I am? The issue is personal and individual between your soul and Christ. Christ must be all that He is to us.

2.      Peter confesses, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.

3.      Jesus blesses Peter for this, and says, “Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but My Father which is in heaven.

4.      Flesh and blood can never reveal to our hearts Who Christ is to us. Only the Father in heaven can reveal Christ, as divine, as the messiah, as the Son of the Living God to us, and what it means to us.

5.      Jesus built His ekklesia, His “called out ones,” His church, upon the Petra, Himself, the Rock of Ages.

6.      Christ’s ekklesia is built on Christ alone, not on a human hierarchy, a human structure.

7.      The gates of hell will never prevail against Christ’s ekklesia that is built on Christ, the Petra, the Rock, alone.

8.      The gates of hell will prevail against every entity, no mater how large, even calling itself a “church,” which is not built upon the true, Biblical Christ alone.

9.      Even if there are only two people left on earth who are true followers of Christ, the gates of hell will not prevail against them.

10.  In truth, if there is only one person left on earth who is built on the Petra, the Rock Christ Jesus alone, he is not alone, for Christ said, Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Christ and that one makes two. Christ makes that one person a majority, for Christ is greater than all creation, and the gates of hell will not prevail against that person who is anchored in Christ.

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